Upcoming Changes for Adult Content: Answers to Questions

Please elaborate why you find this interesting.

One of the few rules of our sim at fetish network is we ban people who support discrimination or behave in a discriminatory nature outside of RP.

I would like to know if anyone has a comprehensive list of all current Lindens as obviously they are in breach of this rule and I need to add them to the ban list ASAP.

Blondin,

the real worry here is that you previously said that a BDSM store does not need to move. You have also said that LL will decide on who gets the free moves based on those who need to or majorly impacted.

The implication therefore is that someone requesting a move because they run a BDSM store may well be rejected for the move.

However, that will then make it very hard for them to advertise, and give any competitors on adult land a very strong competitive advantage.

Matthew

Blondin Linden said that, in a reply to this thread yesterday. Here is the link to the full post.

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As for implementing this Jira in the new 1.23 viewer, I'm sorry to say that it just isn't possible. That's not to say that we are opposed to the idea. As you are all aware, we are attempting a HUGE change in the Second Life experience and we would like the opportunity to focus first on rolling out these changes. In other words, we want to get this first step right before we take another.

Yes. This is part of The Plan. LL intends to eliminate adult content by making it uneconomical.

Not a bad assessment- look at your content, then look at your primary clientele and what sort of advertising attracts them. If either one gets filtered, then you might want to move to the land of red light.

^V^

Zoology is a hobby of mine, and so far as I know both "Donkey" and "Ass" refer to the same animal. What's the taxonomical classification for the donkey, then?

The zoological taxonomy of the small odontoceti is horribly screwed up, to the point where experts on the subject have been known to disagree on just about anything you point to. For example, Karen Pryor on a number of occasions argued in favor of the use of the term "Porpoise" for all delphinidae to avoid confusion with the Dorado. I was not really convinced by this argument (particularly given all the variant names for the fish in question), but arguing with the author of "Lads Before the Wind" wasn't something I was interested in wasting my time on.

Gorean silks are not extreme content ...

too much typing.. linBDSM, linSEX, linSlave, linGor, linGorean, etc....

After the 1.23 final viewer is shipped there will be a 60-day grace period for people to upgrade. After 60 days, if they have not upgraded, they will no longer be able to search for adult content. They will still be able to access adult regions if they have enough info to be adult-verified, but search won't return results with adult keywords or from adult regions

I make folklore and circle dances, and Goreans like to buy them, so I added "Gorean" to the land description and my classified ad. My land and house are not anywhere near adult though, not even mature. So does that mean I need to remove that word from my ad? o.O

He is saying that the currently-planned changes are big enough without adding in more functionality changes, and they would like to chance to get this rolled out first before doing anything else.

How you get from that to what you stated - a Linden saying that this was the first step to banning all adult content - seems a bit of a stretch to me..

Is the phrase "banana hammock" considered adult?

This really would put a dent in my business guys, not cool.

I shudder to think you'd ban the use of "mong" (man thong)

If they're not transcripts, they shouldn't be described as transcripts.

Blondin? Are those actual transcripts or not? If not, when will actual transcripts of the meetings be made available?

Does someone have a good voice transcription program they can run it through?

Blondin, I have mentioned this a few times and have got no response from you. As I feel that it is vital for making this as painless as possible (which is a matter of debate) I feel the need to reiterate here.

I really appreciate that you are coming in here and giving answers to people's questions about how this plan will be implemented. Unfortunately the published documentation sometimes conflicts with answers that you have given here, or does not go into anywhere near enough detail for an impartial observer to reach the same conclusions that you have.

I presume that you are basing your answers on discussions with other Lindens, and not your personal opinions, so I think that it is vital for everyone's sanity that we see those captured in an official Linden Document that can be referenced down the line. My suggestion is to provide these answers as examples of how the plan should be implemented.

Residents doing it on their own sites will not carry any weight with the Linden employees that have the job of enforcing these standards - I think that it is vital that they be published officially.

Have you made any progress on making this happen yet?

An example of how urgent this is is the claim I documented yesterday that a particular Linden had said to a resident that there was a way to bypass all of this by putting a content warning sign and designating a landing point in the sim. I find that a tad hard to believe, I'm afraid, but this is the sort of misinformation that is propagating right now, as everyone tries to work things out. It is vital that we have a common "knowledge base" to work from as far as these sorts of things, don't you agree?

I think if it was between me, you, Shakespeare and Dakota Linden to decide the correct usage of any word in the english language, the bard would get the casting vote no?

Are you suggesting that I take all of my posts and create some sort of public wiki / KB article? Or do you mean internally for other Lindens to read?

Those are the actual transcripts, provided by a third party.

Sounds like a donkey is an ass but an ass isn't necessarily a donkey..

Are you suggesting that I take all of my posts and create some sort of public wiki / KB article? Or do you mean internally for other Lindens to read?

Are you suggesting that I take all of my posts and create some sort of public wiki / KB article? Or do you mean internally for other Lindens to read?

So, you are saying after 60 days someone new joins SL...and the adult tab for search wont be available to them even if they are verified?
Doesn't make any sense, unless what people say is true that it's a precursor to getting rid of adult entirely in SL ...hence step 1...followed by who knows what.

Are you suggesting that I take all of my posts and create some sort of public wiki / KB article? Or do you mean internally for other Lindens to read?

NO, Blondin. I'm fairly sure what is meant that you condense all your public responses to specific questions onto one document for the public so that people don't have to wade through 6000+ posts on this thread to find them. This compiled list, if what you have said is official Linden doctrine, needs to be marked as such. And, where it conflicts with other Linden documents, those conflicts need to be resolved.